Question

1. The next morning, the family began to design a new defence (Pick out the infinitive from the given sentence)
2. Rather than building a house on stilts, which the elephants could knock dous easily, they use four strong trees (Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function)
3. An Englishwoman had been stranded on the smoking rock (Identify the verb and state its tense)
4. Write the Noun form of the words given below
1.cultivate 2.identify​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The next morning, the family began to design a new defence (Pick out the infinitive from the given sentence)

• To design is infinitive here.
• When to is used before a veeb then it is called to-infinitive. Infinitive is a kind of Non-finite verbs.

2. Rather than building a house on stilts, which the elephants could knock dous easily, they use four strong trees (Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function)

• Here could is a modal auxiliary verb.
• Could is past form of can. Could is usdd for taking permission, give suggestion, polite request and as a result.

3. An Englishwoman had been stranded on the smoking rock (Identify the verb and state its tense)

• Stranded is verb and the given sentence is an example of Past perfect tense because had is an auxiliary verb of past perfect tense.

4. Write the Noun form of the words given below

• 1.Cultivate : cultivation
• 2.Identify : identification

Answer 2

1. The next morning, the family began to design a new defence.

to design

2.  Rather than building a house on stilts, which the elephants could knock down easily, they use four strong trees.

Could (modal of past ability)

3. An Englishwoman had been stranded on the smoking rock.

Past Perfect

4. Write the Noun form of the words given below

1.cultivate 2.identify​

1. Cultivation 2. Identification